The Twitpocalypse

So it would appear that Twitter has been the victim of a Y2K like scenario.

The unique identifier assigned to each tweet has exceeded 2,147,483,647.  The result is that some Twitter related apps will begin seeing negative numbers.  The problem is the use of a 32-bit signed integer for the status ID.

It would appear that the Twitter engineering team accelerated the process in order to deal with the issue during the day, instead of at 3am.

If your individual app is affected, a patch will likely be released soon.  I use Twitteriffic on my iPod Touch and overflow broke the app.


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